The youth was arrested yesterday. Pic/Hanif Patel

A 22-year-old youth has been arrested by the Bhayander police for brutally attacking a minor girl. The police said the arrested youth and the girl, who is in Std IX, stay in the same locality in Bhayander. On Thursday morning, she was on her way to school with her mother, when the youth arrived and pushed her mother aside. He then stabbed the girl a few times with a sharp object and fled.